Sir Lore, you have some very funny commenters on your site – starting with your droll review, a fine entertainment package that makes up for the pain of watching that damn-preposterous-amateur-hour-is-better-than-this-sabotage-of-Tolkien episode.
The fact that stuff tried to happen here doesn't make me feel any better about the show. And I know no one expected me to feel better, but this can't be real. Can it really be that hard to take the appendices and make something coherent? Even if you meant to push a message, which I don't suggest doing, can you not have done better?
I hope this dies before season 2. I hope this is considered dead and is buried by the time anything good comes back into cinema and the world.
My god stop bitching. People who are slaves to supposed canon have no creativity in them. They're condensing hundreds of years into a single story bc its a tv show, of course things will change. I'd rather have a LotR show than not, so just get over it, children.
Can't decide what is crazier, either the way how this show is being done, or the fact that some people still defend it or assume it's only "Tolkien purists" that do not like it. Even those normies that say that though, aren't watching it. They know, deep down, they know.
The scene where the Numenorians ride over the tiny little bridge and then all the orcs magically fall down IN FRONT OF THEM WITHOUT BEING TOUCHED was so funny I watched it at least 5 times over. Woke my wife up and brought her out to see it. We laughed so hard that we finished the episode, laughing uproariously at the horrible acting and action.
You're not the only one who wants to leave civilization behind. With common sense and morals becoming extremely rare and everything I love getting destroyed by idiots, I want to become a hermit thousands of miles away from people. Put me in a cabin in the mountains with all of Tolkien's books and things I love, and I will be happy.
I just realized that what Amazon is doing is truly cynical, they want us to actually root for evil (like established evil characters: orcs and Sauron) while at the same time they subvert good characters.
Look I can’t stand this show and what they’ve done, but I also understand what Amazon has access to and that they had to get creative. Granted the creative decisions they’ve made SUCK, I still recognize that they just don’t have a lot of rights for a complete picture. When Tom Shippey left I gave up hope for the lore to not be broken.
The lore breaks shouldn't matter anymore because the show runners clearly didn't care. They're injecting their own agenda into the writing and disregarding the books.
So just pretend this show exists in a seperate timeline.
The ride of the rohirrim in the peter jackson movie was easily one of the best scenes in the history of cinema.
The rip off in the amazon show with the numenoreans in silly 3d printer plastic costumes riding over a field in a disorganized fashion while their diversity queen warches them from the back is basically just a parody of that scene.
So this is the cheeto elf scene, awesome! I guess if I just turned my brain off, smoked a bowl and drank a 12 pack, maybe I could I watch this show and think it was the greatest thing ever, maybe that's the key. One would have to be drugged up on something to think this show was good or worth the time. Side note, you doing a livestream in the forest sounds like a cool idea.
Water in a volcano could be legit. Try throwing a shot of water in a deep deep fryer. It will overflow.
Someone had a theory that the sword hilt was a key to essentially turn on mt Doom….
Holy shit the idiots actually went that route! 😳 😆 🤣
Lol!
Would have been interesting if we got someone like Jackson and Carpenter to direct a series of the New Shadow
Subs climbing up again. 10k 10k
So the corrupted Adar felt like Morgoth was better than Sauron?
Go back to the books coming from the show runners is a meme at this point.
Sir Lore, you have some very funny commenters on your site – starting with your droll review, a fine entertainment package that makes up for the pain of watching that damn-preposterous-amateur-hour-is-better-than-this-sabotage-of-Tolkien episode.
The fact that stuff tried to happen here doesn't make me feel any better about the show. And I know no one expected me to feel better, but this can't be real. Can it really be that hard to take the appendices and make something coherent? Even if you meant to push a message, which I don't suggest doing, can you not have done better?
I hope this dies before season 2. I hope this is considered dead and is buried by the time anything good comes back into cinema and the world.
My god stop bitching. People who are slaves to supposed canon have no creativity in them. They're condensing hundreds of years into a single story bc its a tv show, of course things will change. I'd rather have a LotR show than not, so just get over it, children.
Can't decide what is crazier, either the way how this show is being done, or the fact that some people still defend it or assume it's only "Tolkien purists" that do not like it.
Even those normies that say that though, aren't watching it. They know, deep down, they know.
Its so bad, like incredibly and horribly bad, I am truly amazed at how bad it is.
The scene where the Numenorians ride over the tiny little bridge and then all the orcs magically fall down IN FRONT OF THEM WITHOUT BEING TOUCHED was so funny I watched it at least 5 times over. Woke my wife up and brought her out to see it. We laughed so hard that we finished the episode, laughing uproariously at the horrible acting and action.
Just enjoy the chaos.
I think at this point, we should be all singing the ending song of the "Life of Brian"
You're not the only one who wants to leave civilization behind. With common sense and morals becoming extremely rare and everything I love getting destroyed by idiots, I want to become a hermit thousands of miles away from people. Put me in a cabin in the mountains with all of Tolkien's books and things I love, and I will be happy.
I just realized that what Amazon is doing is truly cynical, they want us to actually root for evil (like established evil characters: orcs and Sauron) while at the same time they subvert good characters.
Galadriel somehow survives the pyroclastic flow. In any decently written fantasy universe she’d be dead.
So what lore is actually broken?
I'd watch Shadow of Mordor Celebrimbor making an army of Orcs to fight against Sauron any time of the day than this
Look I can’t stand this show and what they’ve done, but I also understand what Amazon has access to and that they had to get creative. Granted the creative decisions they’ve made SUCK, I still recognize that they just don’t have a lot of rights for a complete picture. When Tom Shippey left I gave up hope for the lore to not be broken.
Who knew the Rey Palpatine Sith Dagger not only lead you to the crashed Death Star, but also could be used to create Mordor….
So many levels of, that's not how volcanoes work.
At 1.5x spped you may not have realised the charge of the Numennorean cavalry was slightly speeded up which added immensely to comedic battle.
The lore breaks shouldn't matter anymore because the show runners clearly didn't care. They're injecting their own agenda into the writing and disregarding the books.
So just pretend this show exists in a seperate timeline.
The ride of the rohirrim in the peter jackson movie was easily one of the best scenes in the history of cinema.
The rip off in the amazon show with the numenoreans in silly 3d printer plastic costumes riding over a field in a disorganized fashion while their diversity queen warches them from the back is basically just a parody of that scene.
I am enjoying your measured analysis and responses to this antithetical travesty. Cheers!
I was never rooting for a volcano so much in my life. How in the hell would they survive such an event???? This show is made by idiots for idiots.
So this is the cheeto elf scene, awesome! I guess if I just turned my brain off, smoked a bowl and drank a 12 pack, maybe I could I watch this show and think it was the greatest thing ever, maybe that's the key. One would have to be drugged up on something to think this show was good or worth the time. Side note, you doing a livestream in the forest sounds like a cool idea.